This PPT helps students to learn the basics of RESEARCH

1. Research
How to conduct a research
By: Pir Suhail Sarhandi

2. What is research?

3.  Studious inquiry or examination
 Investigation or experimentation
aim at the discovery and
interpretation of facts

4. Why ?
• To investigate some existing situation or problem.
• To provide solutions to a problem.
• To explore and analyse more general issues.
• To construct or create a new procedure or system.
• To explain a new phenomenon.
• To generate new knowledge.
• A combination of two or more of any of the above.

5. Two main types of research
DESCRIPTIVE
• Research that describes something
that is going on in the world.
EXPERIMENTAL
• Research that includes an
experiment

6. Starting a research project
• Identify the research problem
• Identify the research objectives
• Selecting an appropriate methodology

7. Research methods
Quantitative
• is used to understand the
MAGNITUDE of an OCCURENCE
Qualitative
• is used to understand the
NATURE of PHENOMENON

8. Data collection methods

10. Data collection tools
Some of the commonly used data collection tools
 Interviews
 Surveys
 Questionnaires
 Group discussions
 Literature review
 Notes taking
 Observations

11. What next?

12. Start your work

13. Stages in the research process
Select the
problem
Review the
literature
Design the
study
Collect the
data
Analyze the
data
Interpret the
data
Report the
findings

14. Research articles/presentation
include
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Research methods
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion

15. Questions?
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